The Last Winter
Antidote Films (I) | Release Date: September 21, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2
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90
Village VoiceNathan Lee
It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts--and unnerves--in this most chilling of global-warming movies. Read full review
90
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
The Last Winter won’t win many fans among those who place the saving of union jobs above the repairing of the ozone layer. But this is a horror movie with many inconvenient truths to tell about the ways in which we are willingly destroying our planet. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
It's billed as an environmental horror story, but The Last Winter bears all the hallmarks of an ever-popular genre that has always pitted science, technology and reason against emotion, awe and nature. It bears all the hallmarks of the gothic: ghosts, death, alienated sexuality, decay, secrets, madness and, of course, awe and trepidation in the face of the sublime power of nature. Read full review
88
PremiereAaron Hillis
A richly drawn, ambitious character piece both socially relevant and genuinely suspenseful. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Gruesome and terrifying things happen in The Last Winter, but there's no gratuitous gore or torture, and the film's real power comes from its building sense that something really, really bad is ABOUT to happen. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
While the slow buildup won't bowl 'em over at suburban multiplexes, the film should please Fessenden's loyal followers and win him new ones. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
And if the film's 11th-hour CGI effects aren't entirely convincing, the notion that oil itself is haunted by the restless spirit of every once-living thing that time reduced and mingled into the earth's black blood throws off a primordial chill. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The Last Winter sounds like a genre-movie platypus - a little bit of this, a little piece of that - but it stops short of laying an egg. In fact, it works eerily well. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Succeeds royally at building a sense of apocalyptic dread. It isn't quite so successful at sustaining that mood, and Fessenden resorts to blurry images of totemic spirit forces and stampeding moose specters to get where he's going. And where exactly is that? To a place designed to scare the bejesus out of us planet-pillaging consumers. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time? Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Like his "Wendigo," the film has a lot of mumbo jumbo about ancient spirits revived and angered by human disrespect--the old Indian-graveyard paradigm, as clunky as ever. But the context is overpoweringly eerie. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
An imperfect but compelling thriller. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Something wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
The long buildup is too deliberate to please the mainstream horror crowd, and the finale might alienate more niche audiences, but in between there's a good bit to savor. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Among cautionary tales of gloom-and-doom, it may out-gore Gore, but it doesn't entertain. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid Wiegand
The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made. Read full review
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